Associate Professor of Musicology, Arts Leadership & Entrepreneurship, University of Michigan
Mark Clague researches music-making in the United States, with recent projects focusing on the “The Star-Spangled Banner” and the music of George and Ira Gershwin. His interests center on questions of how music forges and shapes social relationships in such subjects as American orchestras as institutions (especially in early Chicago and San Francisco); the Atlanta School of composers; Sacred Harp singing; critical editing; and Performing Arts Entrepreneurship.
Experience
2014–present
Editor-in-Chief, Gershwin Critical Edition
2003–present
Associate Professor of Musicology, Univ. of Michigan
Publications
2019
American Music Goes to School in Atlanta: A Point of View and a Case in Point, Rethinking American Music, University of Illinois Press
2019
“Harmonizing Music and Money: Gershwin’s Economic Strategies from “Swanee” to An American in Paris, Gershwin Companion, Cambridge University Press
2014
“This Is America”: Jimi Hendrix’s Star Spangled Banner Journey as Psychedelic Citizenship, Journal of the Society for American Music
2012
Building the American Orchestra: the Nineteenth-Century Roots of Twenty-First Century Musical Institutions, American Orchestras in the Nineteenth Century, Univ. of Chicago Press
2010
What Went On?: The (Pre-)History of Motown’s Politics at 45 rpm, Michigan Quarterly Review
2008
The Memoirs of Alton Augustus Adams, Sr.: First Black Bandmaster of the United States Navy , Univ. of California Press
2008
The Industrial Evolution of the Arts: Chicago’s Auditorium Theater Building (1889–) as Cultural Machine, Opera Quarterly
2005
Portraits in Beams and Barlines: Critical Music Editing and the Art of Notation, American Music
2004
Playing in ’Toon: Imagineering and the Social Harmonics of Walt Disney’s Fantasia, American Music